Nav aids

Radar beacon at Oyster Rocks light (14-49.22N 074-03.63E) is inoperative.

Arabian Sea · HYDROPAC 2188/26

What this record establishes

Cancelled notice · 2026-09-23 14:45Z

This notice disappeared from the issuing source's in-force list. No explicit recovery or all-clear is established by that removal.

Source and dates: NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt). Issued 2026-07-31 11:36Z. First collected 2026-08-17 13:41Z; last seen in collection 2026-09-18 07:17Z. Collection dates record ingestion, not a new incident or a fresh field observation.
Location covered: Arabian Sea. The parsed report position is 14.820, 74.061. It is a position in the source message, not a live location. Check the original wording for limits and qualifications.

Current notices and reporting history in the Arabian Sea →

issued: 2026-07-31 11:36Z
status: Cancelled notice
sea: Arabian Sea
position: 14.820, 74.061
nearest port: Mangalore · 122 nm
source: NGA MSI in-force warnings (DailyMem*.txt) · first seen 2026-08-17 13:41Z

Original warning text

ARABIAN SEA.
INDIA.
RACON AT OYSTER ROCKS LIGHT 14-49.22N 074-03.63E
INOPERATIVE.

Reading this warning

RACON (radar beacon): A radar beacon on a buoy, lighthouse or structure that answers a ship's radar with a Morse-code mark on the screen.
Aquaculture / fish farm: Fish pens, mussel lines and seaweed farms — moored structures that spread across coastal waters.
Position (degrees and minutes): How warnings write positions: degrees, a hyphen, then minutes, with N/S and E/W — 49-40.8N 003-43.8W.
Inoperative / unreliable / off air: An aid or radio service is not working as charted or published.

All warning terms →

Collected reports in this area · aids-to-navigation notices

71 within 180 nm since 2002 · 3 in the last 12 months · 0 listed in force now

Counts include repeat notices about the same situation. NGA archive coverage ends 2024-05; live collection began 2026-08-17. The period between them is incomplete. An empty year is not evidence that no hazards occurred.

Malpe light 13-20.70N 074-41.00E unlit2026-01-07
Kukra island light 14-42.62N 074-14.36E unlit2025-12-23
NAVTEX station vengurla point 15-51.20N 073-37.00E, off air2025-05-23
RACON at suratakal point 13-00.30N 074-47.40E inoperative2025-01-31
RACON (d) 15-53.37N 073-27.75E inoperative2024-05-28
Suratakal point light 13-00.29N 074-47.38E unlit2024-04-20

Month of issue in the collected archive

All available years combined. Uneven collection and repeat bulletins affect these counts; this chart does not measure the seasonality or probability of incidents.

Nearby notices listed in force · within 120 nm

F/V shri balajaneya sank in 13-36.00N 074-36.50EWrecks · 79.9 nm

Worldwide in the collected sources

138 aids-to-navigation notices listed in force · see all

Record snapshot 2026-09-30 23:01Z; source collection times vary.

Nav aids

Lights extinguished, buoys off station, RACON/NAVTEX outages. All current aids-to-navigation notices →

Not for navigation. This is a re-rendering of an official navigational warning for awareness; mariners must use official NAVAREA broadcasts and their national MSI service.